I Draw and Paint Stories
This took me two sessions to paint because when you paint outside, the light is always changing. Plus painting with oils is not like painting with pastels, pastels are more forgiving. So I went back two days later when the light was the same and finished it. I don’t normally work in oils but I like to challenge myself. Here is the painting I did of “Catch,” a restaurant in our Village.
A bunch of us went out this evening to paint on Fire Island. We dragged our gear down toward the lighthouse. It was a beautiful evening. It was supposed to rain but the clouds blew away and left us with a juicy golden lit lighthouse. A lot of us painted the lighthouse and it was amazing how everyone all had a different approach which resulted in many different ways to paint a lighthouse, lol.
So here is my painting of the Fire Island Lighthouse….
Well I realized that I had only 3 stamped pastel panels so I started an 8×10 oil today…..it’s still in progress so I won’t be showing that one yet. Instead, here is the sketch I did at Swell Taco PGSB night in Patchogue. We sketched the hostess, Britt, in a taco costume and we got a taco when we handed the sketch to our waitress….
Here is my sketch…
It was a cool, grey day. Some friends and I popped over to a local boatyard to paint. It was an interesting place and full of local history. I walked around a bit. Looks different from this side, usually I am sketching this location from the other side of Patchogue River. I decided on this old building…..I wanted to do the whole building but it worked better this way. As I was painting it, my friend Joan informed me that this was the restroom section of the building….niiiccee….so here is my painting of the potties…..
One of the Paint the Great South Bay’s mini challenges was a sketch hour at Kilwin’s of Patchogue. The owner, John, offered the PGSB artists a free ice cream in trade for a sketch in his shop. Hell yeah! I was there, John and I have been on a strict eating and exercise plan but I was taking the night off for a Kilwin’s ice cream. We had an hour to complete the sketch.
This is my sketch that I turned in for an ice cream…these chocolate covered cookies looked yummy!
Today was the first day of Paint the Great South Bay. The artists participating in this event have all this week to paint and then choose their best two paintings to hang in the wet paint show and sale on Sunday, September 3rd. The first organized painting event for this week was a nocturnal event this evening. It was a great night for painting…. here is my painting from this evening….I liked the lights in the window of the church steeple so I chose it as my subject.
Sketched this in Princeton today. I didn’t expect a crowd today but people seemed to be congregating from all over to watch the eclipse. I thought the kids were back to school until I found out that Princeton doesn’t start until September. Some very nice people let me view the eclipse through their glasses. It was pretty cool.
This is a sketch I did using my left hand….
I attended the Festival del Amor last evening in Patchogue. It was a very nice event with various activities but the highlight for me was the flamenco dancers….I don’t normally have a chance to sketch them so last evening was a treat….it’s not easy to sketch moving targets so J am only posting two of the more complete sketches of the dancers.
I also did a collage sketch which included a mock Yellow Submarine that can actually drive. It’s a battery powered ELF car; it’s a cross between a bike and a golf cart.
Also included are my sketches of today’s outing in Oyster Bay (yes, the place will Billy Joel lives) with the NYC Urban Sketchers. It was a great location!
My sketch of the Oyster Bay Brewing Company has a permanent home with OB Brewing Co….
This evening was the last Alive After Five for the season….there was no model this evening so I was finally able to sketch this purple truck…..I meant to add more people to the sketch but it got dark pretty quickly….it isn’t a food truck, it’s clothes on wheels….
Gina Lento: Fine Art and Illustration
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